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Marcia "Cia" Price
Member, Virginia House of Delegates
85th District: Parts of Newport News
"Be the change. Do the work."
A note about our Constituent Services: There have been some frustrations expressed with our requirement that you let us know if you are a resident of the 85th District when you communicate with my office. While I understand that concerns and issues often do not have the same borders as districts, my primary commitment is to the people I serve and then I will do as much as I can for others. Feel free to reach out to your own Delegate if you do not live in the 85th District. Here's a link to find out which Delegate has the honor of serving you: Who's My Legislator
updated 8/17/25
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At a Virginia roundtable, advocates warn contraception rights are at risk
The roundtable came a few days after World Contraception Day, and highlighted Virginia’s stalled Right to Contraception Act, a measure sponsored by Democratic Senator and Lt. Gov. candidate Ghazala Hashmi and Delegate Marcia “Cia” Price. The bill, which would codify Virginians’ right to access FDA-approved contraception, has passed the state’s General Assembly twice, only to be vetoed by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin...... The conversation wasn’t just about affordability. For Leslie Mehta, Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates (D-73), contraception and fertility care were matters of survival....“Extremists who have asserted that life begins at conception,” Mehta said. “They have been targeting some of the IVF clinics, people who claim to be really interested in being pro-family, they are really threatening the ability of families like mine to be able to have children, if that’s what they choose to do.”...
ICYMI: Jay Jones Calls Out Jason Miyares, Republican Attacks Against Reproductive Rights on World Contraception Day
On Friday, Jay Jones joined Del. Marcia Price (HD-89), Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, and storytellers to discuss how he’ll defend Virginians’ reproductive rights as Attorney General. View a recording of the event HERE.
Virginia stands as the last southern state without a restrictive abortion ban because Democrats have held the line against relentless Republican attacks – including those from Jason Miyares. As a legislator, Miyares voted against legislation that defined birth control as “contraceptive methods that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration” and that explicitly stated “that birth control shall not be considered abortion.”
“By the time the next World Contraception Day rolls around, the Virginia Right to Contraception Act will have passed the General Assembly and have been signed into law, and we will have Attorney General Jay Jones, who will defend it,” said Delegate Price (HD-89). “That’s because Virginia Democrats are 100% united on this. We believe everyone, regardless of where in Virginia you live, should have the right to use contraception.”
Del. Price Joins Colleagues to Highlight Early Voting & Jay Jones
Joined by members of the Democratic Ticket for Newport News, Del. Price highlighted the importance of early voting and electing Jay Jones for Attorney General. Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1962331484557633
Report: Life expectancy down in parts of Virginia
Legislative staff in Richmond released a first-of-its-kind report Wednesday morning. The report paints a grim picture for some populations and some regions of the Commonwealth. The new Health Metrics Annual Report aims to describe trends in health conditions and healthcare accessibility across the state and try to understand what’s impacting health with the hope of finding new report topics and policies in the future. And Wednesday’s premiere of the report showed a stark contrast: there’s a 25-year difference in life expectancy depending on where you live in Virginia, with Manassas Park at the high end and Petersburg at the bottom.
Democratic Delegate Cia Price pressed the relevance of social and political determinants of health. “It’s not always biology that some of these things are happening,” Price said. “If you live near a coal plant, you have increased asthma," she said. “For hundreds of years decisions have been made that have negatively impacted certain people,” she added, suggesting future legislation should be done through the lens of equity. “Petersburg did not just end up at 64.3 years,” she said, referencing report data. “Maybe Manassas Park doesn’t need the same things Petersburg needs and maybe it's not a bad work to look at equity when making legislation.”
